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Bug bounty hunting is the new black! During this technical talk, more than 10 interesting vulnerabilities identified in Instagram, the increasingly-popular photo-based social media platform, will be presented. All vulnerabilities were disclosed responsibly via Facebook’s Public Bug Bounty program over the course of 2015 and 2016, and will be discussed in detail. Required advanced Mobile Security attack techniques for this Research, such as Binary Modification, Dynamic Hooking and Burp Suite Plugin Development will be covered, among other trickery. The most interesting vulnerabilities were hybrid: Combinations of complementary vulnerabilities in different environments (e.g. Web and Mobile). The root cause(s) of all identified issues will be mapped onto the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), to analyze where they could have been prevented from materializing. Last but not least, the monetary rewards offered by Facebook for each vulnerability and general Bug Bounty Hunting advice will be shared with the community.

Arne Swinnen is an IT Security Consultant at NVISO, a Belgian Cyber Security Consulting firm. He previously worked for Verizon in a similar position. Arne specializes in Application Security and Digital Forensics. He is also a member of NVISO R&D Labs, for which he conducts technical... Read More →